Investing is a long term endeavor, so limited capital could be a deterrent, it pulls back. Even if we belong to a particular school of thought, practice a particular style of investing, say value investing, we will have to wait for extended periods of time for our investments to become profitable, and in the meanwhile, if we continue our learning, we may think that we have other opportunities, and we should exit our previous bets, and if those bets are in losses, we will have to book losses and move our capital to new found bets, if we are convinced our new bets will yield more results, and if we don’t want to sell at a loss, we will need more capital for new bets.
If you are a new investor, and have limited capital, you can focus on your profession, climb the ladder, earn more, and in the meanwhile learn and practice with small capital, and as and when your knowledge and experience grow, you can allocate more.
Trading, while can be done with limited capital, is more loss making, because every trade comes with a stop loss, so there will be eve lesser capital if all trades go into losses. And if we don’t want to sell at a loss, then we can lose more. Capital is more important here, than investing, as each trade is independent of the previous trades.
In a sense, investing and trading go hand in hand, they can complement each other, knowledge and experience gained with one will help doing other.
Just some thoughts, I do some of both.